Family & Relationships
Peggy Raymond's Way
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from…
A Christmas When The West Was Young
Set against the harsh backdrop of a winter blizzard, A Christmas When The West Was Young weaves a poignant tale of family and resilience. As…
Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House
“What ever became of Polly Pepper’s famous Chicken Pie, and also Phronsie’s red-topped shoes?” the friends of the “Five Little Peppers” keep…
Friendship
The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and go…
The Haunted Ship
Summer adventures on the Coast of Maine. - Summary by Carrie Gorman
The Prophet
The prophet Al Mustafa, before leaving the city where he has been living twelve years, stops to address the people. They call out for his wo…
Ben Pepper
This book is about Ben Pepper on some adventures! From The Five Little Peppers to Joel Pepper to now Ben Pepper, you'll know everything abou…
More About Pixie
Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neigh…
The Homesteader
The Homesteader is a semi-autobiographic novel about Jean Baptiste, an African-American homesteader in the Dakotas. He meets Agnes who he fa…
Clear Heart
Carpenters and craft, friendship and rivalry: Wally is building a mansion for a dot-com multimillionaire in the Silicon Valley of Californi…
Next Christmas in Girouette
Next Christmas in Girouette is a full-length novel for people of all ages—nine to ninety-nine—who want to share a heart-warming literary adv…
Jack and Jill
When Jack and Jill tumble off their sled on the first good snow of the season, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months, pu…
The Adventures of Joel Pepper
The Peppers are a family of three boys, two girls, and Mamsie. They are poor, living in their "Little Brown House", but they alway…
The Freelands
The Freelands family is a mixture: Tod Freeland is an uncommunicative gentle giant, his wife Kirsteen passionate and free-spoken, Felix is a…
Martha and Cupid
Both prequel and sequel to Martha by the day and Making over Martha. This book fills in details about Martha and her family that devoted rea…
Mother
Mother by Kathleen Norris explores the profound relationship between a daughter and her mother through the lens of domestic life. As Margare…
Peggy's Trial
Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has ta…
The Heart of the Ancient Wood
A woman and her daughter take refuge in a cabin deep in the Canadian forest. This is a tale of survival from the land, friendship and love.…
Flower of the Dusk
Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by d…
The Automobile Girls at Newport
Published in 1910, the young sisters, Barbara and Mollie Thurston, are being invited by their skilled friend, Ruth Stuart, to go on a real-l…